Posted on 10/25/2014 9:27:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Virginia farmer is claiming that an environmental group is trying to drive her off her property with overzealous zoning enforcement and invasive inspections.
Martha Boneta explained to Steve Doocy on “Fox and Friends” this week that when she bought the 64-acre farm eight years ago, she agreed to an easement, which allows the Piedmont Environmental Council to visit the property to make sure no laws are being broken.
“We never dreamed in a million years that we would encounter so much abuse of power,” Boneta said. “It’s been eight years of invasive, abusive inspections that go far beyond what’s reasonable.” …
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I wonder if she had an attorney look over the agreement before she signed.
Someone with pull wants her land.
This woman was foolish to agree to give an easement over her property to environmentalist wackos.
The government still doesn’t have the right to do what they’re doing.
Railroads’ grade crossings are easements. The precedent for easements is long-standing.
> when she bought the 64-acre farm eight years ago, she agreed to an easement, which allows the Piedmont Environmental Council to visit the property to make sure no laws are being broken.
The PEC wouldn’t be doing that if they all had tragic accidents.
Does stealing more logging chain than they could swim with qualify as an accident?
I would never purchase a piece of property with a conservation easement.
Just keep some huge hogs - “Boarus - eat the bad men!”
;-)
as long as the water is deeper than average human adult height.
We’re hearing reports like this all the time now. It really can’t go on like this forever. The people are going to break at some point, and all hell’s gonna break loose.
Heaven help all the little commie tyrants when it does.
As my old man used to say, if you lay down with dogs, don’t be surprised when you wake up with fleas.
Dogs treat you better than these politicians do.
“Green” easements... You make your bed, you lie in it!
You can count on that...it is after all Fauquier County.
(when she bought the 64-acre farm eight years ago, she agreed to an easement, which allows the Piedmont Environmental Council to visit the property to make sure no laws are being broken.}
Why in the world would you agree to something so stupid?
Exactly. A Conservation Easement, in my state, turns over most all property rights to the State....for ever. The property is no longer yours.
A piece adjoining ours was turned over to the State with a "Conservation Easement" a couple of years ago. The State put up signs stating: No mowing, cutting, chemical placement (weed and bug control), building, or filling allowed. If I were the owner, I would consider starting a hog farm, since that's not specifically disallowed.
Because it was dirt cheap. The whole point of the easement is to limit how the land can be used, which lowers the value of the land, which means the buyer can get it cheap, but the buyer has to abide by the easement. And she hasn't.
This has been going on for a long time and she has already lost once in court. Plus, the county is on her for zoning infractions, such as no public bathrooms, inadequate parking, required permits needed to operate the business.
You could spend a couple of hours with a google search looking at the history of this dispute.
Who said that the buyer in this case did not abide by the easement? Lesson 1: so-called “environmental” departments lie. Lesson 2: activist judges side by the government liars.
You left out the county, so it is the county, the environmental group, and the judge who are conspiring against Boneta. And as I recall, some of her neighbors are probably in on it too because they are the ones who have complained about the parking and traffic problems.
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